Cemetery Walk Through 2015

Vinita, Craig County, Oklahoma,
Fairview Cemetery Walk-Thru 2015

The first annual cemetery walk-thru is now available on CD in a E-Book format, features forty grave sites and surrounding graves a total of 165 names along with headstones if available. The forty feature graves have a small complied story of their past complied by the Craig County Genealogy Society members. Along with cemetery maps to locate grave sites at cemetery.

E-Book is a book publication in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on computers or other electronic devices. Installed on your desktop computer, or laptop, along with the E-book reader.

Purchase can be made at the Craig County Genealogy Society in the Vinita Public Library, 215 W. Illinois or by mail Craig County Genealogy Society, P.O. Box 484, Vinita, Oklahoma 74301. Cost $20 plus postage $5. We cannot provided a download CD.

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Contact Craig County Genealogy Society for more information.
CCGS484@hotmail.com

Here's a listing of the grave sites on this CD.

1.	Kelly	Fred & Lulu Poole	Tallest monument.
2.	Drew	William Roscoe “Will”	Historian, Writer, Story Teller
3.	Trott	William	A Businessman who sold lumber by the train load to build Vinita. Sawed a house into three pieces, know where two pieces are located. His half of the old hotel is still standing.
4.	Halsell	Willie Enda	Daughter of W. E. Halsell, namesake of Willie Halsell College. Her cradle can be seen in the Eastern Trails Museum.
5.	Frazee	Dr. Morris	First trained doctor in Vinita, hired to vaccinated for smallpox. Seven old headstones his wife and in-laws the Daniels family.
6.	Muropulos	C. G. “Gus”	Well known Greek – candy and ice cream man and café owner.
7	Thompson	Mary E.	Oldest marked burial in cemetery.
8	Dickerson	William C	Headstone in wrong place – Pioneer citizen – “Wild” family.
9.	Edmondson	Lena	The only grave in cemetery with an old metal fence around it. Her sister, Ada C. (Edmondson) Heap, has a stone placed on north side of the fence; note left on Lena’s fence said, “Bury me beside Lena, my only sister…..Love Ada.”
10.	Dupree	Charlotte Bell	Cherokee family, who came over on the “Trail of Tears.”
11.	Balentine	Anna Hoyt	Grand-daughter of Chief George Lowery, her husband, Hamilton Balentinne Jr., was a missionary, his daughters, Miss Mary & Miss Ellen Balentine, who were both “Old Maid School Teachers.”
12.	Foreman	Laura Amanda	Daughter of Dr. A. W. & Emma has a beautiful angel monument & her brother little Alex S. Foreman is next to her.
13.	Kilgore	Norman & Addie Viola Britt	Newlyweds married only forty-one days. The first two people to die in the Cowan Building, (Vinita Daily Journal.)
14.	Adams	Dr. Felix	Pioneer doctor at Big Cabin, OK. Then he became the first superintendent at Eastern State Hospital for over fifty years.
15.	Lucky	Nancy	Oldest birth date engraved on a headstone.
16.	Stanley	Judge Ed A.	“Marrying Judge” – Justice of Peace and “Character”
17.	Howie	Thomas “Tom”	Inventor – “Political & Business Rabble Rouser” (Guess what is in his coffin.)
18.	Trott	Grover Cleveland	His unique stone has high top baby shoes on top. Check out who his siblings were, and his family ties.
19.	Curl	Susan “Bluejacket”	Shawnee Indian with a rich heritage, but not a princess.
20.	Confederate Soldier	Cherokee Warrior	Native rock etched in Cherokee. Has not been identified.
21.	Davis	George Tate	One of the twenty-nine children, all with the same surname Davis.
22.	Price	Pvt. Ira C.	First Vinita soldier to be killed in action in WW I.
23	Mennenga		Hard luck in Indian Territory, all died except little daughter who was reared in South Dakota.
24.	Woodson	Marle	Anonymous author of “Behind The Door of Delusion” by Inmate Ward 8. He gathered one thousand books were to start the first library for patients at ESH.
25.	Gilstrap	Isaac L. “Ike”	Deputy U.S. Marshall killed at Wickliff during a outlaw shoot out. One hundred men were deputized to hunt down his killers.
26	Raines	William B.	Owned a livery stable in Vinita; one of the first firefighters.
27.	Panos	Helen	Age twenty-six a young wife of George who was the owner of The New York Candy Co. had a big Greek wedding and big Greek funeral.
28.	Frayser	Sahgie	Went over the falls and drowned during a Boy Scout trip to Minnesota & Canada.
29.		Indian Home Guard	The story behind them, see the only remaining rock at Eastern Trails Museum.
30.		Bruner’s Grave Yard	Outlaws shot by Marshall Hick, Heck Bruner & others.
31.	Ryan	Dr. Louis I. Sr.	Vinita pioneer colored doctor from 1913-1931. How his wife sent all nine children to college after his early death.
32.	Sharpe	Dr. George T.	Doctor and surgeon who saved many lives and took Dr. Ryan’s place.
33.	Girven	Dr. Elijah H.	Dentist, married into Venters family of school teaching women.
34.	Jennings	Rev. Cicero J.	Graduated seminary in 1886 a Baptist Minister for over sixty years.
35.	Tell	William “Billy”	Son of former slaves, learn how he picked his name. Billy and wife, Lena Tell, owned a café, and always fed the hungry. They had two babies who died.
36.		Union Soldiers	Twenty-eight casualties of the battle of Cabin Creek.
37.	Salkil	Elmer and Mattie Taylor	Flu epidemic and pauper burials are full of graves. The young Salkil couple died of influenza and left their two month old baby, Emmett, as an orphan.
38.	Rogers	Dale Grey a.s.k.a. “Baby Danny”	Abandoned baby found under Little Cabin Creek Bridge in 1969.
39.	Tyner	James W.	Historian with his sister, Alice Timmons, book compiler, author of the ten volumes of grave locations etc., called “Our People and Where They Rest.” Tyner saved the locations of more cemeteries and catalogued more dead people in Indian Territory than anyone else.
40.	Swain	Rebecca Polson	Cherokee businesswoman, store owner and member of Eastern Star and her much older husband, John Swain her mother Susan Huitt.